Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeological sheep bones unveiled at a Bronze Age site in the Eurasian steppe. Ancient animal bones are the key to understanding ...

For the first time in history, scientists were able to retrieve DNA of Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of the plague, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The longest animal on Earth isn’t what you think. It’s a drifting, gelatinous predator whose reach reshapes how we define size, ...

Looking again through the magnifying lens at the fossil’s surface, one of us, Sabrina Curran, took a deep breath. Illuminated by a strong light positioned nearly parallel to the surface of the bone, ...

Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found in Tanzania’s ...